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The Founder

2016 · 115 min

Drama · History

IMDb 7.2🍅 80%
Netflix

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The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Crew

  • Director John Lee Hancock
  • Writer Robert D. Siegel
  • Director of Photography John Schwartzman

Cast

  • Michael Keaton

    Michael Keaton

    Ray Kroc

  • Nick Offerman

    Nick Offerman

    Dick McDonald

  • John Carroll Lynch

    John Carroll Lynch

    Mac McDonald

  • Linda Cardellini

    Linda Cardellini

    Joan Smith

  • B.J. Novak

    B.J. Novak

    Harry J. Sonneborn

  • Laura Dern

    Laura Dern

    Ethel Kroc

  • Justin Randell Brooke

    Justin Randell Brooke

    Fred Turner

  • Kate Kneeland

    Kate Kneeland

    June Martino

  • Patrick Wilson

    Patrick Wilson

    Rollie Smith

  • Griff Furst

    Griff Furst

    Jim Zien

  • Wilbur Fitzgerald

    Wilbur Fitzgerald

    Jerry Cullen

  • David de Vries

    David de Vries

    Jack Horford

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